Unit 1: French & Indian War

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  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus "discovers" America

    Columbus landed at the island of San Salvador in the Caribbean on this day. He later told Europeans about this territory,and they began to colonize in North and South America

  • Jamestown Colony created

    The first English settlement of the main lands. Found by King James l.

  • Plymouth Colony created

    Found by a group of separatists and anglicans who end up becoming Piligram Fathers.

  • New Amsterdam becomes New York

    The Dutch Republic had been the ones to find the area not the English.

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony created

    Founded by English Puritans. John Winthrop ended up becoming the governor.

  • William Penn creates Pennsylvania

    William Penn wanted to create a colony where religion was a freedom.

  • George Washington assaults Fort Duquesne

    He was sent to deliver a message and then later on he had a mission to defend the younge enterprise, but then they realize that the French are already a step ahead of them.

  • Albany Congress meets

    Benjamin Franklin wrote the "Plan of Union."

  • The French Indiam war concludes